<p>State or Country: VA
School Type: Large, Public
Ethnicity: Sudanese (African-American) but US citizen
Gender: F</p>
<p>SAT I: 630 M 680 V 730 W
SAT IIs: 690 Biology 670 French 640 Lit
GPA: 3.7 UW, 3.8 W
Rank: School doesn't rank, somehwere in top 15%, 603 students</p>
<p>All Classes have been AP/Honors since freshman year</p>
<p>Extracuriculars:
- I Co-founded a not-for profit organization for human rights called Teens 4 Peace
- Under Teens 4 Peace I was able to help organize a huge rally in order to stop the genocide occuring in Darfur, Sudan. It was a huge success, mostly becuase it was organized in Washington D.C.'s popular Dupont Circle. I worked with Amnesty International, Save Darfur, STAND, and the Genocide Intervention Fund
- STAND (students taking action now: darfur), International High School Coordinator
-STAND Education Outreach Committee, Executive Board Memeber
- INOVA Fairfax Hospital's Blood Bank, intern
- Time Kaine's Campaign for Governor 2005, Volunteer
- Public Library, Volunteer
- I attended the Boston Area Darfur Activism Conference at Harvard University last Winter
- I taught English after school to high school girls in Sudan while I was there last summer (My aunt is the headmistress of an all girl's school there)
- Sudanese Youth Group, president
- French Honor Society, president
- People Around the World, officer
- Young Democrats, president</p>
<p>I really made passion for the crisis in Darfur the main point of my essays/personal statements.. plus all my teacher recommendations were excellent and really focused on my humanitarian work. </p>
<p>This is where I applied
-Harvard U.
-Yale U.
-Princeton U.
-Columbia U.
-Georgetown U.
-Tufts U.
-NYU
-Berkeley
-William and Mary
-U Penn
-Duke
-Northwestern
-Brown U.
-Cornell U.</p>
<p>I think that your test scores are lacking for those schools, but the committment you show to one issue is something most candidates can't compare with. I think that will definitely be enough to get you into a few of those. I'm not going to speculate on which because I have no idea, but good luck. you'll do fine whereever you go.</p>
<p>and if you dont' have a safety, just add one. Just in case.</p>
<p>okay theres a few things that are confusing. if u took all aps and honors, how come ur weighted GPA is only .1 higher then ur uw? Alot of those schools will be reaches since ur GPA is good but not greaet and ur sats are mediocre. U dont shine in any area except ur EXC and with ur academic stats the way they are, they might not get to ur extracurriculars/essays. Georgetown, tufts, and william and mary will possibly be pretty good matches. everything else a crap shoot with odds not in ur favor</p>
<p>How do you have only +.1 from your UW if you took all honors / AP classes? I have taken almost all AP classes (Except freshman yr and sophomore yr), and I have already +.45 weighted gpa compared to my unweighted gpa.</p>
<p>School can't be retarded. IT just can't. A person can, but a school can't. Nor can any inanimate object, for that matter. And you can't personify it. So next time, please be more considerate.</p>
<p>As far as the school list, you have good ecs. However, top schools will not even care about those w/o the stats. And with those stats, almost all of those schools are big reaches. Do you have safeties?</p>
<p>umm.. this is obviously going to shock most ppl who were pessemistic on this thread.. but i got into Duke (semi-finalist for robertson scholars program) and William & Mary (with full tuition)... i am yet to hear back from the ivies though! will keep you posted! i'm not too nervous though because i'm in love with Duke!</p>
<p>You will easily get into schools like cornell, NYU, Tufts.
As far as the real Ivy's...you will probably get into one or two that likes your efforts...scores are very low and you are too one dimensonal for the rest though.</p>
<p>Your rank and SAT scores are not stellar, though they are not poor either. Unfortunately, you are probably pretty average or below average for most schools you're applying to. I don't think that Cornell, Tufts, and Georgetown are matches for you. They are high reaches. You need more real matches and safeties.</p>
<p>To add to what I was saying: schools like Cornell, Tufts, Gtown are sure matches only for people for whom Ivies are very likely viable acceptances. As you probably know, that's not the case for you.</p>
<p>Despite what others said, your SATs are very good. If any of the schools look at SAT by demographic groups, you will be in the 99% ranking. (you can look this up online).</p>